Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-20
4 COlOred Mass Meeting Protest Axainss
Its Use as a school. House.

There were not more than seventy-ive colored
citizens assembled in the han OF Ebenezer church,
4th and streets southeast. last night when
Chairman Edward Atkinson raped on the floor
with his cane but all were IN earnest The pur-
pose OF the adoption OF resolutions and petitions TO
the President and the District Commissioners,
protesting against the location OF coored indus
trial school in the edifce known the .Mary
Hall House." at the corner OF ~ street and Mary
land avenue southwest. After an Invocation by
Rev. W. ii. Draper, the pastor of Ebenezer church,
and the singing OF hymn, the permanent organi-
zation OF the meeting was effected by the election
OF Mt. Atkinson as chairman and J. ID. Baltimore
as secretary.
The chair appointed committee on resolu-
tons, as follows: J. II. Brooks, Daniel Webster,
Rev. W. j. Howard, Rev. Walter Brooks and Rev.
W. N. Draper, who at once retired.
MT Henry johnson, ex-school trustee was called
upon, and he responded BY saying that he was
glad that the colored people have awakened TO the
fact that the education OF their youth demands
more than passing notice. There Is an immedi-
ate necessity for more school room to relieve the
OVercrOWded Banneker and Cook schools IN which
over three hundred children are forced 10 attend
but half a day. Notwithstanding the rule OF the
school board that no schools above the Sd grades
shall be run on the halliday plan. The Miller
building was thought good enough for the white
children until more room was provided by the
erection OF the Webster School, ana, In view OF In
spectOr Entwisles recommendation that the build
Ing Is perfectly safe and suitable why Is IT he
that respectable neighborhoOd into OF the worst
moral mud-holes in the city?
THE REso1rrroxs
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Ino oolii,ii'Veo INV returheu anu 'hrouen 'ho
n MI .. H. broohs, presenter serious VI
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nrvi,ec,eS ar tht , iS. " Iee anu rd1a
pratons 10 secure ana slnnort nu5c schools In the
District Tor the equal benent OF white and cOored,
a respectful petition was to be presented to the
attention Of the Commissioners and a committee
appointed to wait upon them and the President,
TO the end that unjust discrimination might not
be shown In the establishment Of a school In such
VIGOROUSLY bad locality Thanks TO the press
and the general public for the sympathy shown
Were expressed, and the clergymen OF all the
Christian churches asked TO eXhort their people
10 continue In the efforts to secure equal rights
and to thus refute the charge that the coiored
people are not united In this action The petitions
summarized In The STAN OF yesterday We're read.
MI j. II. Brooks made an appeal In favor OF imme
uiate advance.
THE SPEAKERS AND THE SPEECHES.
Rev. Walter Brooks was opposed to any move
ment looking to the establisi lent OF any insttu-
tion OF learning for white or black In such neigh
oorhood Ihe spirit OF the law he said forbids 1t;
TneIe ~ az deas. one law when prohlolts me
public school, and is not this worse than a hun
tnr ~ .he wi.e .rus.ees continue 10
niutr,, an, th , " ny ~, ,I ms ui .no
OF the hoard there must sooner or iater arse a
struggle for mixed schools or for separate school
poards
c0Iored men nv giving them rI1bts and r. wes now
their duty to speak out as one man when those
rights are infringed.
MR.. HEWLETT'S PROPOSITION
Mr.. Hewlett declared that the commissioners
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anu .ie trustees might estapiish schooi there,
but II the colored people so determined there
would he none for II they say that their children
shall not attend a school In such a nefghbOrhood
there won't be any scholars 10 teach He objected 10
any attempt on the part OF the trustees to estab-
lt.h II
while or colored.
Chairman Atkinson presented a written account
OF an Interview with the President In June, 1856,
In which the President said: .The negro is an
with this Administrator. TO borrow phrase from
my illu5triouS predecessor, he must have every
rlSnt mat Is his due"
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THE EAST WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION SEND PETITION
TO CONGRESS-
Citizens Association No. 9, southeast Washing
Ing held meeting last evening and adontea ,
na1,,on no no san, =, ,Io Sona,n '9- -
W Nc SENT en-, " .ile senate urging an amend
amend the charter OF the Washington and George.
town Street Railway Company. The petition asks
for an extension of the road from the corner M
Pennsylyania ayenue and NH street sonrheasf.
along Pennsylyan,a avenue 10 = 81 rect southeast.
thence along street 10 Georgia ayenne. Thence
southwesterly along Georgia ayenue no the nrpsent
Terminus or the road on Sfh a reef An invit.tfnn
was extended TO the citizens residing in the local.
ity OF the nronosed oil denot hniiding nn SOnth
CAPITOL Street 10 ATTEND the meeting ~ the assn
CATION newt Wednesday and taiE ovar the heot
means OF preventing the esfabIshment M m oil
depot in thai ssction or tbe civ The ortinn ~
col. Hams In the titspute with t1e Raitimore ana
Potomac Railroad about the Eastern Branch
bridge was cOrnmended ~
signs Of Chrtstmas nj Cenrer yuark.,
vvyyoprrxs ron r,r. -, -, -. - -.
STpSsRy ,xo rrpprvS ron Tr in n., foH a, TIE
,a,' an iohAAis foi' The piNiNu-hooh.
DECORATIONS OF evergreens Tor the parlor and
turkeys for the Christmas dinner occupied most OF
the space along street near the Center Market
this ,norr,no, colorad ,on on, ,nr,o 60, -,
the sidewalk on broken barrels ana boxes weav-
Ing crOsSes anu WreatnS Oh eNerSreenS, MOSES and
holly. Pine and cedar trees, and branches of
holly, with their red berries are piled about the
workers. Christmas is some DAYS of yet but
turkeys are already being purchased by the deal